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Happy Birthday Professor E. J. Kenney, 88

February 29 2012, 12:01am, The Times

Edward Kenney

Edward Kenney, the Peterhouse, Cambridge Latinist, is working to a deadline revising a book, with new text and commentary, that he first published 41 years ago, Lucretius, De Rerum Natura. “Along with Ovid, Lucretius is my favourite Latin poet, though favourite is a very inadequate term.” He has nothing special planned for today. With his wife, Anne, he says: “We’ll have something nice to drink and see if there is something good on the wireless.” With a leap year birthday, this is only the 22nd time he has been able to mark the actual day, so he settles instead for the 28th. He says: “One feels, through no achievement of one’s own, something of a rarity.” Rgt